UB Media Advisory: The new pope has started tweeting in Latin. Time to hop onboard

Good news for those for whom hic, haec and hoc* are more than a memory

What: Conventiculum Buffaloniense
(con-ven-TIK-you-lum Buffalo-nee-ence), the University at
Buffalo’s fifth annual three-day immersion workshop in spoken
Latin. This year’s theme is friendship or amicitia
(ah-me-KEE-tee-ah). The touchstone for discussions of friendship
will be Cicero’s “De Amicitia,” selections from
which will be read in the workshop.

When: June 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m.; June 27-28, 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. Best time for media: 1:30-3:30 p.m. June 28 in 107 Capen
Hall, UB North Campus.

Who: Moderators will be Neil Coffee, PhD, chair and
associate professor in the UB Department of Classics; Kevin Roth, a
PhD candidate in the UB Department of Classics; and Catherine
Nicastro of East Aurora High School. The moderators all have years
of experience speaking Latin and leading spoken Latin groups here
and in other states and all are working with active Latin exercises
in their classrooms.

Also those who want to read the pope’s Latin tweets,
Ciceronians, Latin teachers, potential Latin speakers, students,
members of the general public with a yen for fun with Latin
literature, games, poetry or socializing in an ancient
language.

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